Kermit Weeks' air museum in Florida had stacks of them in crates in his warehouse, I saw them on a tour. That was years (15?) ago. He said he used to sell them to hydro boat racers, but he stopped because he wanted to keep them for use in aircraft restorations.
"The engine became known as the Allison V-1710 and 70,000 units were produced between 1931 and 1948. The military adopted the use of the V-1710 in many notable aircraft such as the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the Bell P-39 Airacobra, the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk and the North American P-51A Mustang." Yea Kermie is a horder:)
Well one of those today would be about 40K. I called them they are all out. Wonder where they all ended up? Probably in boats.
ReplyDeleteWonder what they came out of, It's Buffalo so maybe Airacobras?
ReplyDeleteKermit Weeks' air museum in Florida had stacks of them in crates in his warehouse, I saw them on a tour. That was years (15?) ago. He said he used to sell them to hydro boat racers, but he stopped because he wanted to keep them for use in aircraft restorations.
ReplyDeleteKermit Weeks, now there's a man who uses his money for good :-)
ReplyDelete"The engine became known as the Allison V-1710 and 70,000 units were produced between 1931 and 1948. The military adopted the use of the V-1710 in many notable aircraft such as the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the Bell P-39 Airacobra, the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk and the North American P-51A Mustang." Yea Kermie is a horder:)
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the plan of the Australian Disposal Commission in 1946 to sell-off 50 Catalina flying boats for just ￡1,000 each!
ReplyDeleteAnd what happened to them?!
ReplyDeleteNot sure - many other surplus WW2 aircraft were stripped of any valuable metal, so maybe the Catalinas received the same fate if they weren't sold.
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